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2. Tilia femina major. The greater female line-tree eroweth to be a larger tree 
than the former (efpecially if it happen to be planted in good cround); is covered 
with a dark-coloured bark, the next thereunto being very pliable to bend, having 
fome other thin rinds within that ; the leaves are fair and broad, greener, fmoother, 
gentler, and rounder, than elm-leaves, and with a longer end; dented about the 
edges, and of a tolerable good fcent ; at the end of the branches oftentimes, “and at 
the foot of the leaves, fhoot forth long and narrow whitifh leaves, along the middle 
rib whereof {pringeth out a flender long ftalk, with divers white flowers thereon, 
fmelling very {weet ; after which follow fmall berries, wherein is contained black 
round feed ; the wood is whitifh, fmooth, and light. | 
3. Tilia femina minor. The {maller linden-tree is like the laft in all things, except 
that it groweth {maller in body, leaves, and flowers; the leaves are of a darker 
green colour, and it beareth no fruit after the flowers. 
Piacz anp Time. The greater. female kind is planted in many places in this 
kingdom, in pleafant walks, it making a large fweet fhadow, and ufually flowereth 
in May. The others are feldom to be met with any where in this ifland. 
GovzRNMENT AND Virtuzs. There is no medicinal ufe made of the male lin- 
den. The female is under the dominion of Venus, of a moderate temperature, and 
fomewhat drying and aftringent ; the decoction of the leaves, got by boiling them 
in water, is a good lotion to wafh the mouths of young children, or any fore mouths 
that have ulcers, blifters, or cankers, in them. The leaves being pounded or. 
bruifed, after boiling, and applied to the legs or feet, when {welled with the falling 
down of humours, doth help them; the bark is alfo effe€tual for the fame purpole. 
The flowers of the line-tree and of lilly convally diftilled together are good 
againft the falling ficknefs; fo likewife is the diftilled waters of the bark ; and is 
alfo ferviceable againft thofe fretting humours which occafion the bloody flux, and 
griping in the guts. The water, wherein the inner bark hath been fteeped till it be- 
comes thick and mucilaginous, and applied with cloths wet therein, helps burnings 
_ and fealdings, 
13f, LUNG-FLOWER; 
THERE are feveral forts of thefe plants; and they are generally called autumn 
gentians. 
Description. The great autumn gentian rifeth up, according to the richnefs of 
the ground, higher or lower; fometimes two feet high, at others not above one 
foot; fometimes many, and others fewer, ftalks; of a brownifh green =. 
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